Allow this book to help reduce your kids' screen time. It features a collection of 12 beautifully illustrated moral stories in diverse narrative styles that will keep your little ones engaged with the fables and the immersive art activities

"Allow this book to help reduce your kids' screen time. It features a collection of 12 beautifully illustrated moral stories in diverse narrative styles that will keep your little ones engaged with the fables and the immersive art activities"

With his characteristic blend of sarcasm and satire, "the American Swift" presents 245 fables that rival Aesop and La Fontaine in their mordant wit and keen insights into human nature.

"I am about to leave you forever; give me, therefore, one last proof of youraffection and fidelity, for, according to our holy religion, a married manseeking admittance at the gate of Heaven is required to swear that he hasnever defiled himself with an unworthy woman. In my desk you will finda crimson candle, which has been blessed by the High Priest and has apeculiar mystical significance. Swear to me that while it is in existenceyou will not remarry...

Having obtained an audience of the King an Ingenious Patriot pulled a paper from his pocket, saying: "May it please your Majesty, I have here a formula for constructing armour-plating which no guncan pierce. If these plates are adopted in the Royal Navy our warships will be invulnerable, andtherefore invincible. Here, also, are reports of your Majesty's Ministers, attesting the value of theinvention. I will part with my right in it for a million tumtums."After examining the papers, the King put them away and promised him an order on the Lord HighTreasurer of the Extortion Department for a million tumtums."And here," said the Ingenious Patriot, pulling another paper from another pocket, "are the workingplans of a gun that I have invented, which will pierce that armour. Your Majesty's Royal Brother, theEmperor of Bang, is anxious to purchase it, but loyalty to your Majesty's throne and personconstrains me to offer it first to your Majesty. The price is one million tumtums."Having received the promise of another check, he thrust his hand into still another pocket, remarking: "The price of the irresistible gun would have been much greater, your Majesty, but for the fact thatits missiles can be so effectively averted by my peculiar method of treating the armour plates with anew-"The King signed to the Great Head Factotum to approach."Search this man," he said, "and report how many pockets he has.""Forty-three, Sire," said the Great Head Factotum, completing the scrutiny."May it please your Majesty," cried the Ingenious Patriot, in terror, "one of them contains tobacco.""Hold him up by the ankles and shake him," said the King; "then give him a check for forty-twomillion tumtums and put him to death. Let a decree issue declaring ingenuity a capital offen

Excerpt from Fantastic Fables The Moral Principle and the Material Interest; The Crimson Candle; The Blotted Escutcheon and the Soiled Ermine; The Ingenious Patriot; Two Kings; An Officer and a Thug; The Conscientious Official; How Leisure Came; The Moral Sentiment; The Politicians; The Thoughtful Warden.; The Treasury and the Arms; The Christian Serpent; The Broom of the Temple; The Critics; The Foolish Woman; Father and Son; The Discontented Malefactor; A Call to Quit; The Man and the Lightning; The Lassoed Bear About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.